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Space Force unveils logo, 'Semper Supra' motto - SpaceNews:
The U.S. Space Force revealed its new logo and motto as the service seeks to build branding and cultural identity.
The black-and-silver service logo unveiled July 22 has the delta wing as its central element that is also found in the Space Force seal and flag. There is a "Space Force" horizontally shaped logo and a USSF vertical logo.
The Space Force motto "Semper Supra" means "always above." It represents the service's role in establishing, maintaining and preserving U.S. freedom of operations in the ultimate high ground, a Space Force spokesman said.
The logo was designed by the Department of the Air Force's advertising agency GSD&M.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @06:32PM (21 children)
I hope (for many many many reasons, actually) that Biden wins, and if he does, I hope this whole idea just withers away like it never happened. The whole idea, from it's inception, motivation, need, everything, it is just so embarrassing. It's only purpose is to appease one idiot's ego, give something of substance for another idiot to feel like he left his mark, and gives an AF general the opportunity to get to sit at the grown ups table (Joint Chief's), so he REALLY wants this to happen (also for ego reasons).
The rest of this is just a burden on everyone below, and it will have the same streamline efficiency that standing up the Dept of Homeland Security did, meaning that it will cause budgets to explode as armies of middle-managers are brought in to "efficiently" manage and coordinate a whole lot of stuff that was already being addressed and managed just fine.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @06:45PM (2 children)
While I'm with you regarding the level of idiocy of the current (2016-2020) occupant of the white house (using this [wikipedia.org] definition); I honestly don't think this is something that would have been created regardless of whether it was orange buffoon or hated lady in there. It's something the military has (legitimately) asked for for a long time now. Even hated lady would have moved forward with this.
And while I share your hope that Biden wins, this won't be abolished under Biden, nor should it.
Now, onward, upward... and go here to make a change in your world: https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote [usa.gov] ; and if you're already registered, make sure others who aren't yet, become registered, because we have a country to rescue!
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday July 24 2020, @08:47PM (1 child)
Perhaps, but that blatant pandering to prickism should be eliminated. There's a reasonable job for them to do, but macho posturing isn't a reasonable part of it. I'd have preferred a nice simple traditional motto, like "Ad astra". (And I'm *NOT* making a reference to any movie. The traditional phrase is "ad astra per aspira", and is hopeful rather than threatening. http://proverbhunter.com/through-hardship-to-the-stars/ [proverbhunter.com] -- though reinterpreted in a slightly more literal way as "to the stars lead by hope".)
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(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Friday July 24 2020, @09:19PM
Space is hard. Ad astra, per aspirin
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 1) by PaperNoodle on Friday July 24 2020, @06:57PM (1 child)
>withers away like it never happened.
Setting aside Trump his ego and that whole quagmire. I don't think, even if Biden wins, that this will go away. It's been in the works since at least Clinton in the late 90's. Especially as launch costs per kilogram come down through reusable rockets means more economic input and more attack vectors from a potential adversary. Biden might rename it or do some kind of restructuring to claim he undid what Trump did but the effective "Space Force" will still be the same. The US military will still hold full-spectrum supremacy and the management of space assets and threat assessment will still occur.
Personally, I think it makes sense from an organizational stand point to be somewhat separate as well as from a budgeting point.
B3
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:36AM
You're exceptionally delusional, the only kind of American exceptionalism that holds true today.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by EvilSS on Friday July 24 2020, @07:00PM (9 children)
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 24 2020, @07:43PM (8 children)
Because it was a rider on the act that funds our military... [wikipedia.org]
Were they supposed to defund the military to prevent it?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @08:14PM (5 children)
Good point - Obama's Dems had 8 years to stop bombing brown people and still haven't changed their tune.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday July 24 2020, @08:49PM (2 children)
And that's a valid point. Both sides are rotten. But the Republicans are worse...unless you're already a rich man. (Even then Trump is arguably worse.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @09:09PM
> Republicans are worse...unless you're already a rich man
The "republicans are for the party of the rich" is a bit dated. It's more accurate to say that democrates [dailywire.com] are the party for the rich [forbes.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @03:53PM
Republicans are worse than the party that shall not be named? [thehill.com]
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 24 2020, @09:07PM (1 child)
B b b b but! If a dark brown man is bombing brown men, it isn't RACISM, is it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @09:28PM
Dark? Obama is a light skinned yellow (in the AA parlance) guy, not at all dark.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:17AM
I thought all money bills originate with the House. How was it not their decision to include it?
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:43PM
(Score: 4, Insightful) by leon_the_cat on Friday July 24 2020, @07:47PM
No you are completely wrong. As posted already this has been in the works for some time, it's nothing new and is just a split off program from air force. Anyway I'll leave you to have your two minute hate.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday July 24 2020, @09:58PM (1 child)
IMO, we should be going the opposite direction. Future battlefields will evolve over hours or minutes, rather than months or days. We need complete coordination between all involved forces, with rapid and efficient communication and decision making. That would benefit greatly from merging the forces rather than further dividing them.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:41AM
Rely on that and you'll have a complete meltdown when your communication is cut or jammed.
Much cheaper for the attacker to cause you troubles than for you to maintain real-time large bandwidth communication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @06:11AM (1 child)
Are you learning Madarin yet? Don't want that to catch you by surprise when your dreams are fullfilled.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday July 25 2020, @03:57PM
对了. 你呢？
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 25 2020, @10:48AM
The Space Force was not President Trump's idea, although he did latch onto it. At this point, the Space Force pseudo-branch will be with us for decades to come.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force#Independence_(2019%E2%80%93present) [wikipedia.org]
Why the military's Space Corps isn't dead yet [thehill.com] (2017)
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